Friday, January 15, 2016

Common Mistakes That A Clothing Photographer Should Avoid

By Shirley Williams


Photography is not a simple task as many might think. There are huge demands placed on these professionals. Any clothing photographer should be astute and skilled if they are to accomplish their task. This makes it necessary to follow some guidelines for them to come up with images that are of high quality, elegant and beautiful.

It is important to be keen about the effect of lighting on the images. Having the appropriate lighting enables the image captured to have unique facets of the garments. Sufficient light makes it possible for you to capture excellent images with less interference and more sharpness. To ensure that you have ample lighting, you can rent lighting equipment at a cheaper cost. However, if renting equipment is not in your budget you can as well use natural light from large window and a reflector panel.

Likewise, your camera settings must be correct. No matter the expertise of the photographer, if the camera settings are wrong the image captured will be of poor quality. To ensure that camera settings are correctly configured, make sure you have in depth understanding on aperture, ISO and white balance. The ISO should not be set higher than 600-640. Higher ISO makes the camera to capture images with more interference and speckles which are colored.

Additionally, the aperture settings must be higher. This is because, the higher the aperture the more facets of images are captured. The camera aperture should be set at f-11 or more to capture excellent images. In the same vein, the white balance must be set in regard of the lighting; however, you can set it to be auto.

Moreover, as seasoned photographer you need to convert your images in web-ready color space profile. The color space profile include; adobe RGB, CMYK and SRGB. In the event that your images are not edited to appropriate color space profile, they will not appear consistently in various screens, browsers and sites used to view them. This conversion should be done after working through the images to make them appealing and awesome. It is advisable to convert them to SRGB which can be used across all the platforms without distorting and maintaining the value of your images.

The images must be edited meticulously. This can be achieved by making sure cropping, background, alignment and color improves the value of the image. For alignment, all the products of your images should be of the same size. Also, the angles, edges, and corners should be organized and arranged in relation to one another.

If cropping, make sure to do it uniformly. All features of the image should come out proportional. Otherwise, you may end up with an image that is worse than the original. Always crop images to match the platform you intend to upload them.

Lastly, the background style should be consistent on all the images. This makes the images to look appealing, attractive and presented in a professional way. The recommended backgrounds are both white and light grey which look elegant. Moreover, garments colors must be presented accurately. Since camera cannot capture some colors like neon and some shades of green you will be required to use photoshop to tweak the colors of your images.




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